Ann Bainbridge Frymier
Ed.D., West Virginia University, 1992
M.P.H., University of North Carolina, 1988
B.S., Western Michigan University, 1986

Associate Professor Frymier received an Ed.D. from West Virginia University in 1992 in Communication Studies and Curriculum and Instruction. Her primary area of research is instructional communication, which focuses on the role of communication in the classroom. In particular, she has focused on teacher immediacy, affinity-seeking, content relevance, empowerment and humor and their impact on student learning and motivation. Currently, she is studying the communication between students with disabilities and their instructors in negotiating accommodations and collaborating on a textbook on persuasion theory with Dr. Marjorie Keeshan Nadler. At the undergraduate level she has taught interpersonal communication, research methods, intercultural communication, organizational communication, nonverbal communication, and persuasion. At the graduate level she has taught instructional communication, research methods, and organizational communication theory and. She has several publications in national and regional journals such as Communication Research Reports, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Communication Research. Frymier has presented numerous competitive papers at regional and national conventions. She is also Director of Graduate Studies for the Speech Communication Area of the Department of Communication.